By John Rachel
October 12, 2022:
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Events continue to unfold at a
quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation
in tensions around the world, we asked Cynthia
McKinney for her current thoughts.
Cynthia McKinney is an American politician
and assistant professor at North South
University, Bangladesh. As a member of the
Democratic Party, she served six terms in the
United States House of Representatives, as the
first African American woman ever elected to
represent Georgia. She was also the first Member
of Congress to demand an investigation of the
events of 9/11 and the first to file articles of
impeachment against George W. Bush. She voted
against every war-funding bill put before her.
In 2008, Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party
nomination and ran for U.S. President.
We focus on the realities of the
international power struggle unfolding in real
time, specifically addressing the role of the
U.S. in the tensions and its capacity to reduce
them. We are looking for paradigm-shift ideas
for improving the prospects for peace. Her
responses below are exactly as she provided.
Here is what Cynthia had to say.
John Rachel: We hear a lot
of terms and acronyms bandied about. ‘Deep
State’ … ‘MIC’ … ‘FIRE sector’ … ‘ruling elite’
… ‘oligarchy’ … ‘neocons’. Who actually defines
and sets America’s geopolitical priorities and
determines our foreign policy? Not
“officially”. Not constitutionally. But
de facto.
Cynthia McKinney: As you
have probably noticed, the signature of my
e-mails has a quote from a U.K. television
series: “You get to the top and you realize
it’s only the middle.” Tom Dawkins, UK Prime
Minister in the 2012 TV series, Secret State.
I watched every minute of this TV series and
when this was uttered by the actor portraying
the U.K. Prime Minister, I knew this was what I
would call “faction.” Because that is exactly
the way I felt upon realizing that Members of
Congress don’t call the shots; they are mere
actors [with a whole lot of squandered power
that could be used to actually HELP
people—including their constituents and those
harmed by U.S. foreign and military policies]
who trick their constituents.
They are also cowards, because they could say
no to these people, but they don’t dare. They
are also narcissists because they think they’re
smarter than their constituents and in many
cases, also the donors, too. I saw some of them
playing games with the so-called report cards
from lobbyists, scoring 50% on them all and then
collecting money from both sides on every
issue!! Some committees are known as “money
committees” and those are highly sought
after—not for their jurisdiction, but for their
rewards in campaign contributions!
Thus, from the very beginning, the purpose
and process of U.S. policy-making has been
corrupted. I had one famous Congresswoman tell
me, “Cynthia, you just have to accept that when
the [Democratic Party] Leadership tell us to do
something, we’re going to do it!” So, these
narcissists who trade your hopes and dreams for
favors from the rich and powerful accustomed to
getting their way all the time, aren’t even
leaders, either! They’re followers at best,
cowards. Because, in the end, they don’t want
to end up like me—out of the position that
allows them adoration from the public and
favored by the rich and powerful.
If that means “shaving around the edges” of
your morals, values, and principles, so be it.
The primordial objective, once you’re there, is
to stay there until you die. Your life becomes
one long LSD trip. [Mind you, I’ve never been
on an LSD trip, but I understand that people
find it enjoyable, exceptionally revealing, and
way more interesting than the, by-comparison,
mundane world.] I had people calling me,
visiting me, offering me fame and longevity in
Congress. All I had to do was become “theirs.”
One rabbi told me that he would “broker” me to
the Jewish community if I were to agree to “come
under my stable.”
By now, everyone who knows me knows about the
oath to Israel that I was basically forced to
sign—I refused. The others who manage to stay
in U.S. elected offices have signed a loyalty
oath in one form or another to a foreign
country. I don’t know of anything more
heinous—other than that those who demand fealty
to another country operate in our country with
impunity. They have been caught by FBI
translators trading U.S. national security
secrets to other countries with impunity.
Instead, the FBI translator who heard these
conversations was, herself, punished and
silenced! Not the traitors!
One clear reading of the COINTELPRO papers
and the Frank Church Committee Reports makes it
clear that evil [I know of no other way to
describe them] people are giving the orders and
another set of evil operatives who wield
official power are implementing those orders.
The political institutions of the U.S. are
spent. They and the people who occupy them need
to be razed and we should start all over
again—with only the Bill of Rights as our
guide. I am not afraid to envision another
political system for the U.S. I think global
kakistocracy and psychopathocracy are the clear
results of indirect democracy—what a Republic
is. And if a Republic is INdirect democracy, I
believe it’s time for us to try DIRECT
democracy.
JR: We’ve had decades of
international tensions. Recent developments have
seen a sharp escalation in the potential for a
major war. The U.S. apparently cannot be at
peace. “Threats” against the homeland are
allegedly increasing in number and severity. The
trajectory of our relations with the rest of the
world appears to be more confrontations, more
enemies, more crises, more wars.
Is the world really that full of aggressors,
bad actors, ruthless opponents? Or is there
something in our own policies and attitudes
toward other countries which put us at odds with
them, thus making war inevitable and peace
impossible?
CM: Correction. We’ve had
decades of Western aggression against the
non-Western world. Parts of Europe are also
decidedly NOT Western. Therefore, to include
all of Europe in the sins and transgressions and
aggressions of “The West” is incorrect. We are
seeing that idea now being concretized in
international relations.
In fact, I traveled to Russia a few years ago
at the invitation to some of the young people
there. I met with a wide swath of the Moscow
organized and politically active youth and I had
only one question for them as they had many for
me. My one question was, “How do you view
yourself; are you Western European or are you
Russian?” Understanding the centuries-old
desire of Russian leaders to emulate the Paris
or Vienna of their day, I wanted to understand
the identity of the young adults I was meeting.
To a person, they told me that they are
Russians; they have no desire to be like The
West. This represents a paradigm shift from
historic Russia.
Because of the political system currently
favored by the global “Deep State,” the people
really are not the ones who are controlling
policy outcomes. We the People of the U.S. are
allowing the bad guys to rule with impunity. We
the People of the U.S. need regime change in the
image of the Bill of Rights; Putin’s most recent
speech tagged Anglo-Saxons. Yes, Anglo Saxons
have, indeed, committed their fair share of
atrocities on the planet and the people of this
world.
However, a small but well-connected cabal of
Zionists is responsible for orchestrating and
organizing and justifying the world’s wars since
September 11, 2001. I’ve started a list of
perpetrators. It’s larger than one would
imagine. Because those who say “Yes” outnumber
those who stand up to them and say, “No.” The
impunity of these bad actors needs to be ended.
The next phase of our activities should
involve building the alternative societies that
we envision; correcting all of the lies that
have been told to us, like, for example, the
100% anthropogenic explanation for “global
warming” climate change. But, that is not
enough. We must also deny official state power
to those who now wield it. Full stop. Period.
Everyone there now needs to go and the
institutions need to be razed to make way for a
new form of governance.
That cannot happen with those committed to
the corrupted institutions of today, nor can it
happen as long as those who have no other vision
for governance are able to wield state power
over us. A group recently came out with a
“revolutionary” recommendation to eliminate
single-member districts for Congress. It turns
out that their idea really wasn’t so
revolutionary after all because I introduced the
Voters’ Choice Act almost 30 years ago that
contained that same provision!
JR: We’ve had decades of
international tensions. Recent developments have
seen a sharp escalation in the potential for a
major war. The U.S. apparently cannot be at
peace. “Threats” against the homeland are
allegedly increasing in number and severity. The
trajectory of our relations with the rest of the
world appears to be more confrontations, more
enemies, more crises, more wars.
CM: The money is being
stolen and even enough is never enough when free
money is being helicoptered to one privileged
group—and stolen from the unlucky other ones.
What’s amazing is that the unlucky other ones
demurely allow this to happen almost without
even a shrug of their shoulders.
JR: It’s evident that you,
and the many individuals who follow you and
support your work, believe that America’s
direction in both the diplomatic sphere and in
the current conflict zones represents exercise
of government power gone awry. Can you paint for
us in broad strokes the specific changes in our
national priorities and policies you view as
necessary for the U.S. to peacefully coexist
with other nations, at the same time keeping us
safe from malicious attacks on our security and
rightful place in the world community?
CM: Putin spoke of the
Anglo Saxons. That’s poignant and purposeful.
There are people who realize that the U.S. has
veered off track. But, they think they can
“take our country back” without forming a
coalition with other newer and older
“Americans.” As long as the rallies of today’s
“patriots” look like Ku Klux Klan meetings,
these rally-ers will lose. Maybe the idea of
forming a coalition that is truly inclusive with
people from different races and differing
religions, and even with no religion—is the
central Anglo-Saxon problem. For, people who
share skin colors don’t necessarily share
visions, objectives, purposes. But, these
rallies give the impression that they do.
The U.S. is in this predicament precisely
because the Anglo-Saxons in charge at one time
found false friendship with people of the same
skin color, but whose values and vision were
frighteningly different; yet, at the same time,
these same Anglo-Saxons in charge of the U.S.
state viewed the Black and Brown people in their
midst as alien and foreign and undesirable.
After speaking at one of the earlier
“unacceptable,” “take our country back” peace
rallies, I chanced upon a reporter who was
covering the anti-Iraq War rally. I asked him
how did you “lose” your country without a shot
being fired? His response was honest and
revealing: “They [meaning their enemy] were
White like us.”
JR: The general public,
especially when it’s aware of the
self-sabotaging results of our current foreign
policies and military posturing, clearly wants
less war and militarism, preferring more
peaceful alternatives on the world stage and
greater concentration on solving the problems at
home. As peace activists, we are thus more in
line with the majority of citizens on issues of
war and peace, than those currently in power.
What happens if we determine that those
shaping current U.S. policy don’t care what
the citizenry thinks, are simply not
listening to us? What if we conclude that our
Congress, for example, is completely deaf to the
voice of the people? What do we do? What are our
options then? What are the next concrete steps
for political activists working toward a
peaceful future?
CM: We invite Louis
Farrakhan to have another Million Man March in
Washington, D.C. And then, we invite the public
to occupy the White House, Capitol, Supreme
Court, and Federal Buildings. Because, when
Farrakhan came to Washington, there was a
voluntary evacuation of Washington, D.C. like
nothing I’ve ever seen before. Then, we occupy
and we don’t leave.
*****
Author’s Note:
We are grateful to Cynthia McKinney for
sharing her valuable and thought-provoking
views. The interview was arranged by John
Rachel, Director of the
Peace
Dividend Project. The Peace
Dividend strategy is not a meme or a bumper
sticker. It is an
end-to-end methodology for
challenging the political establishment and
removing from power those compromised
individuals who work against the interests of
the great majority of U.S. citizens. The only
hope for our hyper-militarized nation is each
and every one of us having a decisive voice in
determining the future we want for ourselves and
our children.
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